MSI GS65 Stealth THIN-068 144Hz 7ms Ultra Thin 4.9mm Gaming Laptop i7-8750H (6 cores), GTX 1070 8G, 32GB DRAM, 1TB NVMe SSD, 15.6", Black w/Gold Diamond Cut, RGB KB, Win 10 Pro 64 Bit

I have now ran into a fan issue thrice with this machine. The keyboard backlighting is also not working as expected for some keys! The support takes weeks in the best case. I thought MSI had a good reputation for hardware, but this machine has proven me wrong. I don't think I'll buy MSI ever again. :(

I REALLY LOVE the aesthetics of this machine. It's just so classy and great to look at. Pros: -Great Keyboard, easily my favorite that I've ever used. I also love the lighting on it. -SO MUCH CUSTOMISATION, Love that you can customise the key colors, screen colors, and so on -Very nice display, looks sharper than my old Acer V Nitro though both have the 1080P screen -Best trackpad I've ever used, rarely have I felt necessary to hunt down my mouse like I've always had to in the past. Cons: -SPEAKERS, jesus, they should be embarrassed. They're terrible. Out of the box they were very quiet at full blast, and then I putzed around in the settings and somehow got them to get louder, but they're terrible. They're tinny and hollow sounding. -Ports, they're good, but no SD card slot, only one USB type C but that's it. Internally they make up for it; 2 M.2 slots and 2 Ram slots. -Personally not a RAID fan. It's too volatile. -A LOT OF PRE-INSTALLED SOFTWARE. I get some are necessary like the STEEL SERIES and gaming centric MSI apps. The MS Store apps aren't, nor the Norton Antivirus trial. There are a couple of dozens of that stuff. Conclusion: Super happy with it, going to start using it to do 3d printing and drawing. Glad I went with the 32GB RAM option with the dual NVME 512GB drives installed in RAID. This seems like the sort of laptop that would be a pain to upgrade yourself given how compact and loaded it is.

Update 12/11/2018. I've revised my review based on successful resolution of the WIFI issue. MSI support is still horrible; however, with some help from IT friends my new laptop works flawlessly and is a nice piece of applied technology.

I bought this laptop a year ago and things worked well initially. However, after 5 months the GPU fan started to make loud rattling noise. For a normal laptop you just replace the fan and the problem should be resolved, but somehow this laptop has the structure that you need to completely dissemble the mother board to change the fan, which is a very difficult process that I didn't want to try. I called customer service and I learned that I needed to send my laptop to the repairing center for like 3 weeks, which is impossible as this is my only laptop and I needed it every day. So I spent money in local shop replacing the fan. Things worked well for a month until the CPU fan started to make rattling noise just like the GPU fan. Seems like MSI always has fans with poor quality. I don't want to waste money fixing it again and I decided to buy a new one. It's understandable that a gaming laptop can have different issues and I have been fixing my old laptops liking replacing the battery and changing the fans. But one thing you need to know is that this laptop is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to disassemble. So if you are unlucky and received a defective product, you will have to ship it back to the only headquarter of MSI in US and wait for several weeks.

I bought this computer 6 months ago and only had troubles. Many keys stopped working in the first 60 days, the fan makes a terrible noise, and it doesn't always start up at the first attempt. I called customer service and all they could suggest was wiping out the system ?!? I ruled out sending it to repair (it is under warranty), it is such a bad product that I prefer buying something better form another manufacturer.

This machine is quite unbelievable for a laptop. The build quality if fantastic. The RGG keyboard is beautiful and feels fantastic. The trackpad is responsive and accurate, maybe the best I've ever used. The 1070+144hz display just kills every game I've thrown at it on Ultra settings. Desktop and work application performance is also fantastic. Everything is done NOW. My only cons are the power port location, right in the middle on the right bezzle, and the speakers leave a little to be desired for a laptop of this quality and cost. Overall, I'd still give it 10/10 though and recommend to anyone who wants a serious piece of hardware in their laptop bag.